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Broad classification for weather, seasons & holidays.
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A spectacular piece of understatement describing weather capable of freezing your eyebrows.
Read full entry →Reducing extreme weather conditions to a mildly inconvenient observation.
Read full entry →Filling a suitcase with clothing for sunshine, frost, wind and torrential rain all at once.
Read full entry →Trusting the British weather far more than experience suggests you should.
Read full entry →A recurring national belief that the coming months will somehow be different from every previous year.
Read full entry →Experiencing every season of the year during a single British afternoon.
Read full entry →A brief period of misplaced optimism that inevitably ends with people shivering again.
Read full entry →Making immediate warm-weather purchases during fleeting moments of sunshine.
Read full entry →The cheerful insistence that damp weather is simply part of the authentic experience.
Read full entry →Retelling an objectively miserable holiday as though it were an unforgettable success.
Read full entry →Automatically bringing wet-weather clothing regardless of the predicted sunshine.
Read full entry →A surprisingly peaceful enclosure that shields its occupants from horizontal sand.
Read full entry →Constructing a defensive perimeter against coastal winds using colourful fabric screens.
Read full entry →A silent promise to have fun no matter how aggressively unpleasant the weather becomes.
Read full entry →Refusing to cancel a beach trip regardless of meteorological evidence.
Read full entry →A traffic queue created entirely by people believing there wouldn't be any traffic.
Read full entry →Convincing yourself that millions of other motorists won't have the exact same travel plans.
Read full entry →The smug feeling that accompanies purchasing seasonal chocolate at peak value.
Read full entry →An insufferable contrarian who derives sexual pleasure from manufacturing arguments about mundane topics just to sound intellectual.
Read full entry →An unparalleled, almost holy physical relief experienced when peeling soggy cotton from pruned feet after stepping in a puddle.
Read full entry →The narcissistic, deeply annoying habit of immediately invalidating a colleague's cold by boasting about a severe flu you had in 2019.
Read full entry →Quietly and rapidly departing from a stated intention of keeping things low-key, without ever formally acknowledging the shift.
Read full entry →A short-lived, genuinely joyful shift in mood triggered by the year's first significant snowfall.
Read full entry →Excessively committed to prolonged, unnecessary pyrotechnic celebration well beyond the appropriate occasion window.
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